Chapter 185 Nine Nether Hell

With the development of the war situation in Sui Dynasty, the basic situation has been decided.

The commander of Khitan soldiers, Mogo, one thousand men, was first attacked by Mao Yi's more than 6,000 cavalry, and then he was chopped by 6,000 infantrymen, and they were all finished in an instant. Only Mogo took forty or fifty cavalry in advance to escape to the north, even Abaoku and others couldn't care about it.

After annihilated the troops of Mogo, more than a hundred catapults also fell into the hands of the Sui army. Without the catapults, the entire Sui army's array was as stable as Mount Tai, and began to take the initiative to move and squeeze towards the junction of the entire Central and Hou army.

The large shield was formed as a formation, and the spear was like a forest. The entire Sui army formation was like a turtle, with a hard shell, and like a hedgehog, with a spear thorn like a forest. On the Diaotai of Chen Kefu's central formation, four commanding flag soldiers and red and blue flags were constantly waving. The eight arrays of the central army began to squeeze towards the junction with the rear army neatly and orderly.

The two thousand cavalry of Mogo and the five thousand cavalry of Abaoku were all suppressed here little by little. At this time, there were only about five thousand cavalry left in the entire seven thousand cavalry. In less than an hour of fighting, the Khitans had lost three thousand cavalry!

Facing these five thousand cavalry, Chen Kefu did not rush to attack immediately, but instead kept squeezing and squeezing them with the array, constantly shrinking their space. He squeezed them tightly between the two mountains. Chen Kefu's plan was very simple, using the central army infantry formation as the pillar, surrounded the thousands of cavalry here, and then used the cavalry as the mobile power to block the two front passages.

Then, he used heavy infantry as the force of attack and defense to strictly prevent the Khitans who were trying to rush out of the formation. After finally blocking the entire valley, he would let all these damn Khitans die under their bows and arrows.

Chen Kefu ordered all formations to be dispersed and attacked, and would never give a slight chance to break through the Khitan cavalry. As for those Goguryeo captives who ran away, he didn't care. These people were just like flocks of sheep, and it didn't matter if they ran away. As long as they got the place out, they would catch them back.

The more Abaocu fought, the more wrong it became. After a while, he received an order from Mogo to lead his army to retreat.

But when this order came, it was too late, and the Sui army's array blocked them like an iron wall. Their way to retreat north was no longer open, and the only way to retreat was to retreat southward.

He was about to order the entire army to assault south, but Watai, who was previously responsible for bypassing the Sui army's rear formation and blocking the retreat route of the Sui army, led a defeated soldier to suddenly rushed from the south.

"Abaoku, no, the Sui army has seven or eight thousand infantry. They have a kind of crossbow arrow with a very powerful range of nearly two hundred steps. Our soldiers have very hard support. Just now, four or five thousand cavalry came from behind our formation, and the infantry and cavalry rushed together. The soldiers and horses of various tribes were only three thousand, and they could not resist and were defeated. Asbaoku, give me some more people and I will definitely take the Sui army's back."

The Sui cavalry attacked them only had three thousand people, but in order to conceal his failure, he deliberately exaggerated a little.

Abaoku's face suddenly darkened and said lightly, "We have been defeated. Mogo just sent me an order to lead our troops to join the north and then retreat. But now the Sui army has blocked the northward passage, so we have to retreat south. Alas, you have just lost the retreat path to the south. There is no other way. Pass the order and all the cavalry charge south. Don't get entangled with the enemy. Just rush south. After rushing, we will assemble again!"

The cavalry of various tribes gathered together, and there were nearly 7,000 cavalry. A group of Khitans rushed south with a rumbling sound.

It was only when we arrived south that we found that they were already one step late. The Sui army seemed to have expected that they would break out here. The entire rear army had six or seven thousand people gathered in front of us to form a defensive formation like the central army. A huge metal shield was reflected on the golden sunlight and stood in front of the array. Behind the shield array was the spear array. The spear more than ten feet long, the sharp spearhead was shining with cold light, waiting for them to bump up like a forest of death.

There were two shield arrays, three spear arrays, and behind them were the archers and crossbowmen. At the end of the entire infantry array, there were the thousands of cavalry that Watai had just mentioned. However, at this time, the cavalry had all dismounted, holding crossbows and aimed at them.

Looking at this formation, all the Khitans felt cold, but they had to continue to rush forward with their teeth.

"put!"

A series of shouts sounded, and crossbow arrows as dense as locusts flew out of the Sui army's formation. The sounds of the cavalry rushed to the front fell in rows. Even if they had shields, the shield was too small, and it was just a small round shield that could only block the upper half of the knights. However, the Sui army chose to shoot horses without exception. No war horse could avoid these crossbow arrows, and no war horse was wearing iron armor. As long as they were shot, they would basically fall down.

As soon as these front cavalry fell down, they could only be trampled into meat paste by the Khitan cavalry behind them in such a dense charge.

One round, two rounds, three rounds!

Abao Cave made the Khitan cavalry attack the Sui Army's rear infantry formation three times, and each time they had to drop hundreds of corpses! Almost a thousand cavalry corpses were piled up in front of the entire infantry formation, like a small hill, blocking the not-so-wide passage.

With these piles of corpses made of Khitan cavalry, the defense of the Sui army's rear military formation was even more enhanced. Just like an obstacle, the charge of the Khitan cavalry was blocked by the corpse mountain, which increased the difficulty of the impact.

Before Abaoku reorganized his team and launched the fourth round of attack, the central army of the Sui army had already squeezed over. The heavy footsteps and the sound of stepping on the ground made every Khitan despair.

What made them even more desperate was that more than 100 catapults suddenly appeared in the Sui army's central army array. Abaoku recognized it at a glance. This was the catapults they brought. After strangled the last 100 cavalry of the dense forest position, Li Shimin faced him only with these 100 catapults that were as complete as before.

Li Xuanba asked the infantry to destroy these catapults because the order he received was to destroy all catapults within half an hour.

Li Shimin called him to stop him. General Chen Kefu asked him to destroy these catapults because they were in the hands of the Khitans and caused too much damage to the Sui army's array. But now these catapults are theirs, so why should they be destroyed? There are still many Khitans that have not been annihilated yet, so it is not just right to use them. He guessed from Chen Kefu's order of the cavalry to divide the troops and block the passages on both sides that he had guessed that he wanted to encircle and annihilate the entire army. Now, using these ready-made catapults to deal with the cavalry is also a good weapon.

As expected, Chen Kefu was very happy with the catapult cart brought back by Li Shimin. He immediately ordered him to take it with him and rushed to the back army.

At this time, Abaoku felt extremely complicated when facing the catapults he brought.

In the Sui Central Army formation, Chen Kefu had a smile on his lips and said to the infantrymen who selected to manipulate the casting cart, "I want to change the fireball, and I also want these Khitan dogs to compensate for the taste of the fireball."

Regarding catapult carts, the Sui army mostly brought hundreds of catapult carts when they went to Jinshan Canyon. And the workmanship and accuracy were much better than the refined catapult carts seized in front of them. But these catapult carts, like those large crossbows, were all placed in Jinshan City. At this time, Chen Kefu ordered and immediately found many infantrymen who could control catapult carts.

The Engineer Battalion is a special force. It can be said that it is like a combination of artillery and engineer troops in later generations. They are not only responsible for digging trenches, setting up camps, and building equipment, but also for the manipulation of various large-scale equipment in the army. The catapult cart is also within their range. A veteran of the Engineering Battalion with the rank of honored second-level non-commissioned officers first operated. He stretched out his thumb and gestured at the Khitan cavalry's position a few times, adjusted the catapult cart, and then ordered the operation of the soldiers to put on the oil-dreamed grass ball, lit the fire, roared, and let it go!

Like a sun shining with a blazing light, the fire ball, with a tail flame, hit the Khitan cavalry formation very accurately, and then jumped onto another cavalry. In a blink of an eye, the fireball had already ignited three cavalry.

Death is sometimes not scary, it is just a knife. However, for a long death, it is terrible to bear the fear and pain a little bit by bit. The burned cavalry screamed and danced, running everywhere, and the howling made the Khitan cavalry feel cold!

Abaoku took a bow and arrow, fired several arrows in a row, and shot three cavalrymen who were lit on the spot. He knew that dying earlier would be a relief for these people of the same clan. Although the person died, the fire was not extinguished. The burning flames kept burning on the corpse, emitting waves of corpse odor!

"Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!"

One after another, the sound of the sky was suddenly occupied by the red fire ball, and hundreds of fireballs roared at the Khitan cavalry. Just as they saw the miserable appearance of the person hit, all the Khitan cavalry collapsed, which was even more terrifying than the rain of arrows all over the sky.

The horse neighed and howled, and the pale-faced cavalry could no longer control themselves and ran wildly. However, they had already been surrounded by the iron walls of the Sui army. No matter how hard they ran, they could only run in that small circle until one fireball after another fell from the sky, hitting one cavalry after another, turning them into firemen. Countless screams sounded, and under the golden sunlight, it seemed to have become the Nine Nether Hell!
Chapter completed!